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Another one bites the dust. I keep hoping for a legitimate data entry job, but this one is not it. Dataentrybusiness.com cannot possibly fulfill its promises. It’s heavily promoted by top-paying-online-jobs.com, which should be ashamed of itself. It won’t, of course, because such people have no shame.
The long review: What are the claims?
Dataentrybusiness.com and its promoters claim it leads you to legitimate data entry jobs. All you have to do is pay the $49.00 “membership fee,” and you’ll get access to the “Members’ Area” containing all the secrets you need to rake in $200 per day or more for 45 minutes of daily work. Data entry jobs like this, and specifically dataentrybusiness.com either directly claim or imply the following:
- Companies pay you for filling out forms; this outfit even lists specific numbers:
If you complete 2 forms a day = $448 per week! (thats $1792/Month and $21,503 a Year!)
If you complete 4 forms a day = $896 per week! (thats $3584/Month and $43,008 a Year!)
If you complete 8 forms a day = $1792 per week! (thats $7168/Month and $86,016 a Year!) - You do the work in some sort of proprietary system, which you gain access to by paying your membership fee
- “We provide an online catalog of companies, organised into relevant categories (health, money, employment etc).
What is the truth?
Don’t be fooled by the hype, the testimonials, the pictures of cash, or the yellow highlighter. Here is the truth about those claims:
- This is a lie. Companies don’t pay you to fill out forms (at least not in this scenario.) They pay you IF someone clicks an ad you create AND THEN buys the product your ad is selling. Whether the clicker buys or not, YOU PAY a fee to Google for the click, if the ad is based in Google Adwords.
- You are not using a system that the company has hooked you up with. You’re using Google’s Adwords system and choosing companies from Clickbank, both of which everyone has access to for free.
- This is another lie. They don’t provide you anything except for instructions on how to set yourself up with clickbank and Adwords accounts—information freely available if you know where to look.
Here’s what’s really going on: You are filling out Google Adwords forms or affiliate links for businesses listed in Clickbank. There’s a lot the program promoters don’t tell you:
- If it’s based in Google Adwords, you’ll have to PAY for each form you fill out because you’re creating an ad to go in Google’s database. You pay Google to list your ad on sites like this one, in search results (that’s what “sponsored links” are), in Gmail screens, and elsewhere.
- You pay a per-click fee every time someone clicks on your ad.
- You only get paid if someone makes a purchase after clicking on your ad.
How many times have you clicked on an ad and not made a purchase? Yeah, me too. So now you can see how this “data entry job” is going to suck money from your wallet faster than you can say, “I want my money back.”
“But Joe, look at all the news outlets that have done stories on them. It must be legitimate if MSNBC is reporting on it.” See, the promoters are hoping you’ll see those news logos and think that. They think you’re as dumb as a box of rocks. I did detailed searches at 4/5 of the news organizations listed, NONE OF THEM did stories on this outfit. More about that later.
Numbers don’t prove anything
The part of this page that really gets my goat is the image claiming to show “how much you can earn completing forms.” Fill out 2 forms per day and make $448 per week? The world just doesn’t work that way. Maybe you could make that much with two forms, IF a given number of people clicked on it each day that week AND purchased whatever that ad is selling. And even then, it depends on you choosing the right company to create ads for. Make ads for strawberry-scented butt-rash cream and you might be stuck with a 10-cent commission per sale. How many tubes of cream do you have to sell to make $448 per week at that rate?
I’m so disgusted by these guys that I felt I had to take action. I wrote to the legal departments of cnn.com, msnbc.com, Wired News, and the New York Times online and gave them a heads-up that someone is using their logos as endorsements. It felt really good, too.
You know what felt even better? Finding the dirt on them at the Better Business Bureau. Read the whole report; I can’t do it justice here:
Complainants allege false or deceptive advertising practices, dissatisfaction with the offer which resulted in refund requests, or failure to honor their money back guarantee. Some buyers complain the company misrepresents the income potential, or fails to disclose that there are additional costs after the membership is purchased. All complainants claim they experience difficulty contacting the company in regards to their refunds.
Were you considering Dataentrybusiness.com and read this review as part of your research? Have I saved you from flushing $50 down the loo? If so, we’d love to hear from you in the comments. Come to think of it, we’d love to hear from you in the comments, anyway.
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Thanx so much for keeping tabs on scams like this. Add me to the list of people saved! I just had a neck fusion surgery and was looking for something I can do from home while off work. I almost fell for it too. But, I googled the name of the website and your review came up. Thank You!!!
Hi Joe,
I appreciate your idea of helping people not to get into scam.
I signed up for dataentrybusiness.com.And found that it is scam.
Is there any way that I can get my money back.
Do you have any contact # or Email ID or mailing Address.
And wanted to know if they charge my credit card again and again.If that is the case how do I stop that.While signup process I gave my ITIN #. Will there be any problem in that.
Waiting for your help.
Thanks
Uma
Thanks for putting up this info. Like others I was almost “had” by this scam, just like I have been by those so called paid survey scams. I guess the only way to make money from is selling or lying. But anyway THANKS for saving me some money.
this message is for Debbie Butt. I was scammed but got my refund within 1 week of my request. I searched their website for a ‘contact’ email address. following my request for a refund, they sent me these advertisements about how I can invest BLa BLah Blah …. which I suspect are automatic responses. An email then followed asking me to send them the item product number which i knew not. HOwever, I used the website address that showed up on my credit card statement: essellerate.com, got that number and emailed it to data entrybusiness. they then promptly refunded me. for more infor – i had indicated this in an earlier discussion at the top of this page.
I’m glad I found this site in my search for the truth, I was this close to signing up but am glad now that I didn’t. The way you explained how it works makes sence but I don’t have time to “sell” 15,000 tubes of cream for my $400 per week. Thanks
I signed up for dataentrybusiness.com.
I tried to contact them for a refund and the
e-mail address can’t be found and of course there’s no phone number. What can I do?
Thank You,
Bev
I am sooo glad i found your site…you did save me 50 bucks..I kept looking for the scam page and there you were thank you thank you. I am the mother of 5 and just want to stay home with my kids so this sounded great and the $$$ wow..should have known to good to be true..I wasted 50 bucks on the Reverse Funnel System a few weeks ago and then found out that it was just to go to another page to puchase a 3,000 dollar vacation package…will we never learn. Someday hopefully we’ll find something and all will be well??!!..
A month ago I paid $49.95 for the Dataentrybusiness.com program, I paid through Plimus. It was advertised that within 2 business days I will be contacted. I have a good paying job but my commute is 3 hours every day so I decided to find another way to get an income from home. It is almost two weeks I have not heard or get any contact from either Plimus or DataEntry. I will call my credit card company to dispute the purchase and reimburse my money. It might have worked for others, but I did not get anything.
Well, I am the fool, I have been trying to find a legitimate home job so I can stay at home with my kids and this, unfortunately was the one that I choose, well needless to say I didn’t check out your website first, atleast I am only out the $50, keep up the good work on letting others know whats really going on out there. Thanks.
Hi Joe,
thank you so much for this information – i too had been tempted by dataentry,com after having them recommended by top-paying-online-jobs.com – who claim to have done all the research and eliminated the scammers!! i am now going to completely give up my search for paid on line work at home ( i am on maternity leave and wanted to earn to help our family). i have already checked out keystrokes for cash and several others that come recommended as NOT being scams – but all to no avail – they all turn out to be scams as discovered by wonderful people like you. so thanks so much – however i am sad that there is no genuine opportunity for me to work from home like this. if you do find any genuine jobs please please let me know!!! i really need to find a way to earn from home.
thanks again,
Astrid ( Melbourne Australia)
I was hoping to make some at home money to supplement the income I make at my 8-5. I was so close to signing up for this website. But as with everything, I always google anything I have to pay for to make sure that I’m getting my moneys worth. I found this site and it confirmed the nagging voice in the back of my head. That this was too good to be true. Thank you for putting this information out there. You saved me from losing my hard earned money and time and stress of trying to recoup.
Another victim here. I bought the scam like many people do out of the need to earn a quick income from home. I had back surgey in September and knew I would be laid up for 3-6 months with no income. Hastily I bought their bogus program without researching it a few months ago. I tried many times to comprehend their literature and all that I could understand was that I needed to buy this, and set up that, and join this, and register for that, etc…… The one thing I completely understood was that I had been scammed. Sorry to all others who have been also been scammed, and congratulations to the ones who researched before they lost their hard earned money. I sure could use the $49.95 to buy some pain medication for the pain on my backside I’ve developed from kicking myself. Thank you Joe for informing people.
Yep, you saved my butt too. I am so grateful to have found you guys in my search for a legit way to help make ends meet. I will check out telecommuter.com and I have subscribed to this site. Keep up the good work, guys!
i have been caught up in this scam. is there anywhere thats someone knows of that will bing me back to the original site that reckons it will give refunds????
pls email me at princess_manda@hotmail.com
Thanks for this message. All online surfers should be warned against such easy money making syndrome on the net lately. They will suck you dry and amke your pocket empty or run you into debts….So be careful
Thanks for your info – you’ve saved me money and frustration (as well). The email sounded pretty good and, as I do surveys (for hardly any incentives, just for interest)I was tempted…
But, thanks for the warning : the email really was SPAM as my security program was telling me!
A. Winter
additionally, Lethabo Mojapelo, if you are trying to contact Data Entry Business for a refund, you will need the product nos that was assigned to the 49.95 payment at the time of purchase. If you do not have those nos hiding somewhere in one of their emails then you need to go onto this site called http://www.eslr8.com. plug in your email address and you will be emailed the product item nos. After esselerate emails you the item nos. you can then email it to the Data Entry Business so that they can enter your nos into their system and subsequently expedite your refund. without these nos. they will not refund you. good luck
this is a response to Lethabo Mojapelo: it has only been 2 days since Yahoo Search Marketing has finally refunded me. I kept emailing them regularly until they probably realized that i am serious. There is hope still. first of all you need to get their telephone nos. and call them. have your account info, and user name for Yahoo search marketing ready when you call. if you want i can send you their tel. nos. I hve called so frequently that they are practically on first name basis with me. LOl. dont give up hope, they do refund but you must be patient and relentless.
Hey Joe…I heard about this on Robin & Company this morning. They mentioned homenetpro.com, claiming you can make extra money working from home here. How nice of them to mention a sight that is a scam. dateentrybusiness.com is one of the recommended sights there.
Here’s another $50 you’ve saved. Many thanks Joe.
i also fell for it ,i thouht it was for real as they had 100% money back guaranteed,i then requested a refund shortly after i joined only to find out that these guys are unreachable,its good that you inform people about these scams and save them money,wish i could have seen this ealier
thank you
Lethabo Mojapelo
Thanks Joe…..i nearly falls into the trap. Thanks you. Appreciated it.
Hi:
I am desperate to find an at home data entry/typing service. I read all your shared responses on different sites, but am still looking for the legitimate one. Can you really help someone out who is desperately seeking a work from home opportunity. I am a very fast typist as well as data entry specialist. Lost my job because of automation and see so many scams. I have been scammed many times, spending money promising you you will make money quickly only to find that you have to spend hours learning. Please help me.
Thanks
Pauline Hall
thanks joe
u saved me too… god bless u..
even i was goin to be the next victim for the data entry jobs site..
i tell you what i m desperately looking fo ra reliable site to work from home out of circumstances occured.
can u please help to find a real genuine one..?
tht will be great !
thanks again… & keep sharing
Oh yes you did. You saved my friend’s $50. She was about to fall for the scam but chose to first ask my opinion. I smelt a rat considering an investment of $50 to make $200 in 45 minutes, wow!. I did a little googling and came across this site. You have been very helpful indeed.
Great article! My inbox was hit by a tempting email from one of these scammers. I had to do some googling myself to see what was up with this company which lead me to your blog. I also did the standard BBB lookup where I saw they received an ‘F’ for being such a shady company. Good work.
Thanks for this site and your inputs, my 50 bucks still in my pocket… I too was hoping to get an extra income that can be done in a flexible time … as i check my email i noticed this “DATAENTRYBUSINESS” link and was so excited and eager to signup because of the extra money that i might earn, as i google i saw this site and try to read about this “DATAENTRY SCAM BUSINESS”… it did help me to save my 50 bucks..
Thanks
Elmer
another one saved :)well done
Thanks Joe for the info on dataentrybusiness.com.I received 2 invitations through emails from a Yahoo Groups saying sleixld@yahoo.com has invited mt to join the Financial Free Group and that this invitation expires in 30 days time. I clinked on the link that led me to dataentrybusiness.com. The offer was too good to believe so I decided to use Google Search for its legitimacy and come across you site. You have done good work and its worthy noting that in this world there are good men like you who would not like to cheat others out of their money. Please keep up the good work, only GOD will reward you. I come from a third world country, Zambia where purchase of forex is expensive and wonder why anybody would think of robbing poor people.
Are there any legitimate worldwide data entry jobs or online typists jobs which I can join please?
I don’t shop on-line either but this all sounds pretty good to me. I bought a gift card from K-mart. There was no shipping or postage charge, it is just face value. So I’ll go to K-mart and use it like cash. I think Macy’s also has a face value gift card that works the same way. If I go to K-mart instead of Target or Wal-mart I can spend $100/month without spending extra money. I may be wrong, but it looks like if you are careful, and you sign up lots of people, it can work. Good luck! Fran
Well I just signed up yesterday and I just found you tonight. I should have known it was too good to be true.
Thanks for the info on dataentrybusiness.com. I linked to it from an email (stupid, but I need some sort of home business) and was checking it out. The website had a timer which ran to zero, after which I could not open the website again.
I checked altavista for someone who knew about the business and found you. I am glad I did.
I have tried some survey companies but only made £6 up to now. Most companies only offered free entry into prize draws. I will try your suggested companies.
Thanks again. I will join your community.
tks for saving me $$$$$$$$$$ again…I just had a check in my spirit when it said $49 so as in the past I typed in truth about Dataentrybusiness …and your site came up…God bless you for caring for people.
Jerry
They’re after me!! HULP!!! Thanks for the eye opener. It’s so true = ” If it’s sounds too good to be true, then it probably is, Buyer BEWARE and Look B4 ya leap and If in doubt, do nothing.” OK already enuf quips. I am still on the hunt for a REAL work at home using my PC. = ALLAN
You rock, Claudette! Thanks for posting this helpful info. I’m sure it well help lots of folks fight these jerks.
Hi Lani, there is hope yet; I have finally gotten a refund of my $49.95. from Dataentrybusiness. Actually it took some doing: I found this website called eesellerate.net which is what was printed on my c/card account as having been creditted to from my accout and i checked it out online and found that all i had to do was punch in my emailaddress that i used to register with dataentrybusness and Essellerate would email me the account no. and the item no, of the registration transaction that i paid for. I immediately used that info i got from Essellerate and emailed dataentry business requesting my refund, and they immediately refunded my 49.95. I am yet to receive a refud from yahoosearch marketing. I called them today and was promised that i would be refunded all moneys they deducted from my account minus their registration fees of 30.00. here is a copy of the letter they sent to me today after i called them. Here is thier number you may want to call for your refund: 8185245700: when you call please have your yahoo search user name and account number ready to quote to them
Oct 2 2007 09:44 PT
Dear Claudette,
Thank you for taking time with me on the phone today about your refund
request. As of this email I have submitted an expedited request for
your $60.00 refund back to the PayPal account on file. Typically it does
take 2-3 business days for that transaction to be completed. We
appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience this may have
caused.
Sincerely,
Luis Velez
Customer Solutions
Yahoo! Search Marketing
Well, as they say, Lani: live and learn. Good luck getting your money back from those bozos.
Joe,
I am so ashamed of myself for not doing some research before I sign up. I was excited to try and because I was in a hurry to go to sleep for work after I signed up it took me to create my membership and username and password, there was no website to display, I checked my internet and other sites to see if this was just my computer and came to find out that this was no joke. I had no way to contact them after nemerous of email to them with no respond and finally went to sleep, here I am the very next still determined to see if I can still get on and no return email and no way to sign in. Big problem, now I regret not listening to my cut feeling not to pay to make money. This was a learning experience for me.
Hey Kerry,
Are you saying we saved you $50?? That’s awesome. Almost makes up for my having read John Chow’s online income report for September, which tangled me up in blue for a few hours. Skepticism and caution are the watchwords when looking for online income opportunities.
Joe…thanks for “paying it forward” with your knowledge on several online scams. I received 3 emails which were in my SPAMbox all about this dataentrybusiness.com site. I read it twice, clicked on the order now link, went back and decided to do a search on this “company” and found your review. I’ve heard that companies won’t charge you a fee if they want you to work for them so the red light went off again (survey sites suck too!) so I didn’t bite. I’ll be saving this site for future info, legit info on where I can make a few extra bucks short of selling my soul! Take care!
Thank you,I was just about to send the money when I decided to make enquiries.Ishould have known better?
Joe, I want to thank you so much for saving me $50! I’m unemployed so I don’t have much and I found dataentrybusiness.com through google and was serious about joining because it said to be “The Top Pick of 2007”. It’s a good thing I came here and read about it! Once again, thank you! I also want to warn everybody that if you see an ad in the local newspaper saying “Homeworkers needed. Make $1,500 a week stuffing envelopes or assembling jewellery”, its a scam. They charge you $49.95 and a month later you receive a “Work At Home Directory” with 80% of the addresses in the US that doesn’t exist! I’ve been scamed. I’ve learned my lesson now. Always look up before I invest. I have one question though, I went to the site “Canadian Homeworker Review” http://www.topjobreview.com and entered my info and they mailed me info for a directory for companies in Canada which would cost me $69.95. ($29.95 if I registered by Oct 8) Is this a scam too?
Mel, that’s the best written comment I’ve read on a blog in a long time! You have a knack for the well-turned phrase. There’s bound to be someone out there who wants to hire a good writer. Keep your eye on http://www.dailytelecommuter.com. It lists 10-15 telecommuting jobs every day, many of them for writers. I’m thrilled we saved you money, and we’ve added you to our Neener-Neener counter in the right sidebar.
Mickael: I would love to hear about the $495 you spent with ippomails.net. And no, I don’t know anything about them.
Steve published a list of apparently genuine employers here. Be warned, though, we haven’t tried any of them. If they ask you for money instead of a resume, come back and let us know.
Chalk up another $50 saved! I am not looking for ‘something for nothing’. I am not afraid of hard work. I am silly enough to actually believe in and desire fair pay for a job well done! And I keep finding these jerks who want my something for their nothing. Who don’t want to do any work (especially not hard work). Who don’t know the definitions for words like ‘fair’ or ‘job’. Thanks for this website. It not only saved me some money, but restored my flagging hope that a decent job may actually be available somewhere out on the web for me!
Like some people, I was about to sign up and pay to join that site, so I decide to look for complaint about that website, and I found you, one word, thank you. Have you ever try http://www.ippomails.net, because I never have been paid. I have spent $495 to become a platinium member… and at the end, nothing after for almost a year. Do you have list of true home base business ?
I usually google a site that Im not familiar with…just to get to get the buzz, if any, on it. I googled this one and found you. Thanks, Joe and thanks for the other suggested sites for work-at-home opportunities.
Thanks for sharing, Claudette. I’ve front paged your story.
i tried dataentry business for my son who wanted to make some money while he was studying in London. the thing is a scam and we found this ou the hard way when we checked our credid card account and found that yahoosearch had started deducting 30.00 every 3 days from our account via paypal. He was hesitant at first and wondered why they wanted his credit card account before signing up, but we thought that it was so that he could be paid. I had to put a block on my account so that even i cannot use it now.. i called yahoosearch and they promised to refund my money. however when i tried to contact dataentry business for my $49.95 refund, they sent me that same letter which they sent Julia. aparently, Yahoosearch did indeed tried to contact us to discuss the problem. and when i called them concerning cancellation and refunding the paypal deductions they promised to comply. they have not yet done so. now i am convinced that there really is no legitimate dataentry business online. cant you do somethiig about ths. why must people get away with this kind of scam.
Wow, excellent questions, Julia. Their response is a perfect example of what they learn in Scam 101: How to Answer All the Questions Except the Ones They Actually Ask. They didn’t answer Richard Williams’s question, either. And he was really bummed about that, let me tell you!